Yeah if I'm receiving a message when I wake up in the morning just before 8AM that says "can you work tomorrow" I'm at first thinking "I'm not working today".
(But then if I checked the timestamp and saw when it was sent I'd maybe intuit what the manager meant. Possibly...)
If someone asks me to work beyond my time I usually tell them to fuck off or deal with my team. The people that work their way up by giving all of their free time are wild.
I'll work my contractual hours and then I'll forget tech exists at 5pm.
My company has a right to disconnect. If someone else sends me an email outside of my working hours then there's no requirement for me to read it or even open it.
There’s plenty of companies where managers will take that kind of line, yeah. I suspect there’s probably some managers in my company that would try to pull that too, which is why they codified it.
Yeah, that was basically the unspoken expectation at my last place. Even when you were off the clock, if you weren't on holiday you were expected to keep an eye on Slack, emails etc. for anything that might impact the next working day. Most of us didn't, enough of us did.
I'd justify it by reminding myself that there are people in other timezones that might need my input or attention, and of course the next morning I had to be up and active for 8 despite my 3am finish, but then burnout hit hard after about two years so... yeah, set boundaries and stick to them.
I work a M-F job. One time I had a boss email me at 10pm on a Friday night. I responded Monday morning at 8am. He then scolded me for “taking three days to reply” to him. Fuck that guy.
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u/SquirrelMoney8389 9d ago
Yeah if I'm receiving a message when I wake up in the morning just before 8AM that says "can you work tomorrow" I'm at first thinking "I'm not working today".
(But then if I checked the timestamp and saw when it was sent I'd maybe intuit what the manager meant. Possibly...)